Re:We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened
by troyvit on Friday January 12, 2024 @12:47PM
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Two minutes? That's less than half a cigarette.
It took awhile but I finished the article. I don't see much self-gratification in phrases like:
> we saw around a 30% increase in our cost per click (CPCs) in Google search.
Or this:
> This took a TON of back and forth, basically building logic that an out-of-the-box attribution solution already has in SQL, but we finally got to a place where we could salvage around 50% of attribution data.
The self congratulating I saw was
* they decided to try this before it was foisted on them by externalities.
* they worked their asses off to make it work.
* they have a competent BI team.
I don't understand why they also eliminated most first party cookies though. I respect that level of respect for user privacy but it goes beyond my personal expectation for privacy.
It took awhile but I finished the article. I don't see much self-gratification in phrases like:
> we saw around a 30% increase in our cost per click (CPCs) in Google search.
Or this:
> This took a TON of back and forth, basically building logic that an out-of-the-box attribution solution already has in SQL, but we finally got to a place where we could salvage around 50% of attribution data.
The self congratulating I saw was
* they decided to try this before it was foisted on them by externalities.
* they worked their asses off to make it work.
* they have a competent BI team.
I don't understand why they also eliminated most first party cookies though. I respect that level of respect for user privacy but it goes beyond my personal expectation for privacy.